No more Department of Education and Training: How to manage schools?

Phòng GD-ĐT - Ảnh 1. — Students of Tan Son Nhi Primary School (Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City) at the school library - Photo: NHU HUNG

Accordingly, there will be no more Department of Education and Training, kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools will be managed by communes. The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City will manage professional matters, appoint principals, vice principals, and mobilize teachers.

Reorganization ofeducational institutions

According to the plan of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, the People's Committee at the commune level will manage preschools, primary schools, and secondary schools; be responsible for allowing the establishment, suspension of operations, and dissolution of independent nursery groups and kindergarten classes; guide the work of primary school enrollment in the area; be accountable for activities, educational quality, management of teachers and learners, and implementation of educational development policies in the area before the People's Council, the Department of Education and Training, and the whole society.

In addition, the People's Committee at the commune level will coordinate with the Department of Education and Training and management agencies to implement regulations on extra teaching and learning; Carry out educational communication work in the area.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education and Training will organize the management of continuing education facilities (except for community learning centers that are assigned to commune level management); vocational education facilities; high schools and other educational facilities.

After abolishing the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Education and Training will arrange and reorganize preschool, primary and secondary schools; schools and classes for the disabled; continuing education centers, vocational education - continuing education centers; vocational education centers; secondary schools; colleges under the management authority of the Department; Direct and guide the work of enrollment, examination, issuance and revocation of certificates, diplomas and certificates.

In addition, the Department is also responsible for managing teaching and learning activities inside and outside schools; Directing the implementation of moral education, lifestyle, and school safety activities; Organizing the implementation of plans to implement projects to innovate programs and textbooks; Carrying out educational communication work; Providing guidance on state management of education for commune-level People's Committees; Decentralizing and authorizing commune-level People's Committees to perform a number of tasks and powers under the state management authority of the Department of Education and Training on education...

How to manage human resources?

Also according to the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, the commune level will directly manage the organization and personnel of the community learning center; Direct the recruitment of preschool teachers; Decide on the number of labor contracts for job positions in educational institutions under its management; Direct and guide the implementation according to the decentralization of work, management, and implementation of policies for developing the team of teachers, managers, civil servants, and workers under its authority.

The department level will advise and submit to competent authorities to decide on job positions and civil servant staff of educational management agencies in the province; Advise and submit to competent authorities to decide on job positions and total number of employees in public educational institutions; Preside over or delegate the implementation of recruitment, use, appointment, change of professional titles, training, fostering, and evaluation of teachers, educational management staff, and employees in public educational institutions.

In addition, the Department of Education and Training is also the agency that makes decisions on recognition, appointment, dismissal, transfer, change of job position, rewards, and discipline for heads and deputy heads of public educational institutions; guides and organizes the recruitment, use, evaluation, training, fostering, and implementation of policies for civil servants, public employees, and workers at institutions managed by the Provincial People's Committee.

In addition, the Department will also take the lead in advising the Provincial People's Committee to issue projects, development plans and specific policies for teachers, managers, civil servants and workers in public educational institutions. Thus, according to this proposal, the Department of Education and Training will directly recruit, use and appoint teachers, principals and vice principals of schools.

Who will manage educational content?

The Department of Education and Training of the City proposed that the People's Committees of communes will advise the People's Councils at the grassroots level to decide on plans, programs, and projects for developing preschool, primary, and secondary education in the area in accordance with the province's education development strategy. The Department will advise and submit to competent authorities to decide on general education development plans in accordance with the province's socio -economic development plan.

Regarding educational facilities, the commune level will decide on planning and land use plans for educational facilities in the area; Manage and organize the effective use of offices, assets, working facilities and allocated state budget; Invest or participate in investing in the construction of kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools; Mobilize resources to develop education in the area.

The department level will advise competent authorities to develop plans for investment in facilities, resources, and funding to ensure conditions for organizing teaching and learning, and organize the mobilization of resources for educational development; Be responsible for explaining the quality of education, managing teachers and learners, and implementing educational development policies within the scope of management before the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, the Ministry of Education and Training, and society.

Regarding finance, the commune level will decide on allocation, approve budget settlement, approve funding mobilization plans, and make construction and investment plans for educational institutions under its authority. The department level will develop an education budget estimate and decide on allocation for affiliated educational institutions; coordinate with the Department of Finance to determine and balance the local annual state budget for education and submit it to competent authorities.

Ensuring consistent quality of education

According to the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, to implement the above proposal, the department will certainly encounter both advantages and difficulties. In particular, the Department of Education and Training is currently a specialized agency assisting the Provincial People's Committee in state management of education and training at preschool, general education, continuing education, vocational education, and specialized education levels, so it has enough management personnel to ensure consistent quality of education from preschool and above.

However, the department will also be under great pressure in terms of recruiting, using and managing teachers and staff; organizing activities and managing educational institutions.

Facilitate lifelong learning

Regarding education content: The commune level will coordinate the implementation of the general education program in the locality; mobilize the maximum number of people of school age, creating conditions for everyone to study for life. The department level is responsible for guiding and organizing the implementation of professional and technical work; universalizing education, compulsory education, eliminating illiteracy, building national standard schools and building a learning society in the area; guiding the work of enrollment, examination, granting and revoking certificates, diplomas, certificates, and assessing the quality of education.

The Department of Education and Training will also provide professional guidance to those holding educational monitoring positions at the People's Committees of communes, wards, and towns...

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